Movie guru, into movies that tell a great story, a writer, movie lover
MAY
17
2008
The Genesis of the Indiana Jones Hat:
When George Lucas first created the character originally known as "Indiana Smith," he already had decided to set the globe-trotting archaeologist/adventurer's serial-styled stories in the mid- to late 1930s, a time when Indy could search for religiously-significant (and supernaturally-endowed) artifacts while facing off against the nefarious Nazis and other possible (and plausible) adversaries without having to create a totally fictitious Movie Villains' Guild a la James Bond's SPECTRE.
Of course, grounding Indy's adventures in a realistic setting meant that
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